Microsoft announces general availability of Oracle Software on Windows Azure, additional updates to platform
Today, as an extension to the strategic partnership with Oracle initially announced last June, Microsoft unveiled that Oracle’s mission critical software is now generally available to...

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Samsung announced that Samsung KNOX will now support Microsoft’s Workplace Join to Active Directory and the Windows Intune cloud-based mobile device management solution in addition to Cloud Printing solution which uses both the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform and Microsoft...

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Microsoft Named a Leader in Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2014
Once again, Gartner has positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, based on its completeness of vision...

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EMC Announces New Solutions and Enablement Programs for Microsoft Cloud
Leading cloud computing, big data and IT solutions provider EMC announced its participation in the Microsoft Cloud OS Accelerate program. This collaboration enables joint customers and partners to accelerate...

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Microsoft Joins the Open Compute Project
On Tuesday, Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise announced that Microsoft is joining the Open Compute Project – a community started by Facebook that is dedicated to the open collaboration of engineering efficient...

Continuing to deliver on its commitment to offering the best possible experience for developers, Microsoft announced another wave of enhancements to Windows Azure this morning. These updates include:
The general availability of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager , which providers customers...

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AzureDevs Awards $100,000 to Black Girls Code
As part of its effort to change the world through code, AzureDevs announced at Build 2013 that it would award $100,000 in grants to technology education nonprofits selected by the community. Over the months, tens of thousands of votes...

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Microsoft Wins 17 CRN Channel Champion Awards
Microsoft’s commitment to working with partners to deliver solutions that meet joint customers’ needs was acknowledged as CRN announced the winners of its annual Channel Champions survey. The survey included over 4,000...

Release to Manufacturing of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to manufacturing and announced that it will be available to customers on February 22, 2011. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 enables sophisticated desktop virtualization...

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Get the latest Windows Azure updates
Continuing to deliver on its commitment to offering choice and cost savings as well as the best possible experience for developers, Microsoft announced another wave of updates for Windows Azure this morning. Updates include the general availability...

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Windows Azure Mobile Services: New support for iOS apps and renewed alliance with Twilio
This week, Microsoft announced a number of new improvements to Windows Azure Mobile Services, including how developers can now use Mobile Services to develop native iOS apps. Additional updates...

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Following this year’s Nobel Prize announcement, Nobel Media’s Nobelprize.org website was inundated with visitors and the organization put their trust in Windows Azure to ensure that everyone could quickly and easily read about and view the event. In addition to Windows...

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Today, at the BUILD conference, Microsoft showcased its cloud computing development tools and service platforms to help developers flexibly create and deliver powerful applications on their choice of the public cloud, the private cloud or a combination of both. In his keynote, Server...

Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Windows Azure HDInsight
This week, Microsoft is attending the Strata + Hadoop World Conference, where the company will discuss its big data strategy and approach as well as its work with the Hadoop community and Hortonworks to accelerate the adoption...

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Essar Group Unleashes Power of the Cloud with Windows Azure In an effort to offer its customers Web-based applications with high performance and scalability while maintaining low infrastructure and management costs, multinational conglomerate Essar Group has announced it has selected...

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Microsoft announces Windows Azure updates
Microsoft unveiled a number of updates for Windows Azure over the last week, including general availability of Windows Server 2012 R2 in the Windows Azure image gallery and the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.2 . Additional news included...

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Microsoft Announces Availability of SQL Server 2014 CTP2
Today, Microsoft CVP Quentin Clark delivered the keynote to the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit 2013 in Charlotte, North Carolina where he announced the availability of SQL Server 2014 CTP2 , a near...

The Appleton Compassion Project on Windows Azure Teaches the Art of Compassion to Local Students
Last Week, Microsoft announced that Appleton-based Skyline Technologies has adopted the Windows Azure platform to build a viewer on the Trout Museum of Art’s website to enable artwork from the...

Ever wonder why some events you attend are run much more smoothly than others? Well some event management companies are using the cloud to make life much easier for attendees, sponsors and organizers. Microsoft BizSpark One startup EventDay uses Windows Azure mobile technologies to make event check-in...

MIX2011 Showcases New and Updated Tools for Developers
This year at MIX2011 in Las Vegas, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform, announced several offerings designed to make Web development easier and more seamless for developers targeting the Web, cloud or phone:...